Modern English → Old English
Old English word for abuse
7 headwords match “abuse”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The 7 strongest follow; teona ranks first.
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abuse — damage, harm, hurt, destruction
- has a full inflection table
Paradigm summary nominative singular tēona genitive singular tēonan dative singular tēonan accusative singular tēonan nominative plural tēonan genitive plural tēonena -
abuse — to put to shame; abuse; insult; harm
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative sċende first-person singular past indicative sċende second-person singular present indicative sċendest, sċenst, sċentst second-person singular past indicative sċendest third-person singular present indicative sċendeþ, sċent third-person singular past indicative sċende -
abuse — hateful speech: verbal abuse, invective
- appears in the definition
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abuse — to do wrong to; to bid amiss, abuse, mistreat, ill-use, offend
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative misbēode first-person singular past indicative misbēad second-person singular present indicative misbīetst second-person singular past indicative misbude third-person singular present indicative misbīett, misbīet third-person singular past indicative misbēad -
abuse — to pervert, apply to a wrong use, abuse
- appears in the definition
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative miswende first-person singular past indicative miswende second-person singular present indicative miswendest, miswenst, miswentst second-person singular past indicative miswendest third-person singular present indicative miswendeþ, miswent third-person singular past indicative miswende -
abuse — damage, hurt, vexation
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative tēo first-person singular past indicative tēah second-person singular present indicative tīehst second-person singular past indicative tuge third-person singular present indicative tīehþ third-person singular past indicative tēah -
abuse — to speak evil of, blaspheme, malign, condemn
- has a full inflection table
- verb: derivation noise is possible
Paradigm summary first-person singular present indicative hierwe first-person singular past indicative hierede second-person singular present indicative hierest second-person singular past indicative hieredest third-person singular present indicative hiereþ third-person singular past indicative hierede
How this ranking works
Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “abuse” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.
| The English word opens the headword's definition | +10 |
| It appears later in the first definition | +6 |
| It appears in any definition | +3 |
| It is in the headword's links | +2 |
| It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence) | +9 |
| The headword has an inflection table | +3 |
| Part of speech is a proper noun | −5 |
| Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy) | −3 |
| The headword is an alternative form | −6 |
| The first definition is longer than three words | −2 |
A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.
Not one of these?
The match may be a different sense of “abuse”, or an inflected form rather than a headword. Look up the form directly — the entry page marks the grammatical case.
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